Hospitals filling up in Europe’s most polluted capital
AFP | Children are missing school and hospitals are running out of beds as a noxious smog smothers Skopje, earning the small Macedonian city the...
French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says
AFP | France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance...
Captured Irish jihadist tells of dying days of ‘caliphate’
AFP | From detention in northern Syria, alleged Irish jihadist Alexandr Bekmirzaev describes hunger and fear as missiles pounded down on the last shreds of...
Brexit deal not open to renegotiation: EU leaders
AFP | European leaders moved quickly Tuesday to reject an attempt by Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May to re-open talks on the Brexit divorce deal,...
Climate change pushing killer whales to migrate north
AFP | Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. Their favorite...
Facebook has ‘new tools’ against EU election meddling
AFP | Facebook on Monday unveiled new tools to counter online political meddling in the European elections, part of a campaign to answer growing pressure...
Brexit: What is the Irish backstop?
AFP | How to keep the Irish border free-flowing has proved to be the toughest issue to resolve in negotiating Britain's exit from the European...
Hard, soft and Brino: The Brexit glossary
AFP | Britain's long goodbye to the European Union often seems to be spoken in unintelligible code. Most know the process as Brexit a child...
No butter, no cream: Vegan rules at French pastry match
AFP | Contestants duking it out at this year's World Pastry Cup in Lyon on Monday had to wrestle with a challenge previously unthinkable in...
10,000 ‘red scarf’ protesters march against ‘yellow vest’ violence
AFP | More than 10,000 people wearing red scarves marched through Paris on Sunday in protest at "yellow vest" violence during the anti-government demos that...
Iran accuses France of ‘destabilising’ region
AFP | Iran has accused France of being a destabilising force in the region after its foreign minister threatened new sanctions against Tehran over its...
France tells firms to look beyond Brexit Britain
AFP | The French government on Friday urged companies to start planning in earnest for Britain to crash out of the European Union without a...